Vol. 16 (2023): XVI International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Socialist Realism in Literature and Art
PhD Students Session

Reception of the Anti-hero in the Literary Text and Criticism of Social Realism (Mikhail Javakhishvili's „Kvachi Kvachantiradze“ and Polikarpe Kakabadze's „Kvarkvere Tutaberi“)

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  • Lili Metreveli,
  • Tatia Oboladze
Lili Metreveli
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature
Tatia Oboladze
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.16.2023.7594

Published 2023-12-11

Keywords

  • Anti-hero,
  • soviet literary criticism,
  • „Enemy of the people“,
  • socialist realism

Abstract

In the 1920s, two important texts of Georgian literature were written: Mikheil Javakhishvili's pica-resque novel „Kvachi Kvachantiradze“ (1924) and Polikarpe Kakabadze's play „Kvarkvare Tutaberi“ (1928).

Who are Kvarkvare Tutaberi and Kvachi Kvachantiradze? And what do they have in common? The capability of metamorphoses, a total absence of moral and ethical values, dishonesty, and fraud - this is an incomplete list of qualities that both characters have.

Our research aims to investigate how Soviet literary criticism of the 20-30s interprets the mentioned texts.

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